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If your visitor count is not high & what you are including at server-side is not resource hogger, just plain HTML, then its Ok to do it as server-side includes.

JS includes also work fine. No problem there. And that thing that most people have js turned off, it applies to a certain kind of websites only. And since websites relying heavily on JS for different tasks such as form submission etc, people don't shut JS off anymore.

Thanks asp_funda, I was thinking of changing my server, but for £25 (uk) for 2 years it's really cheap, and so far has only been down twice in 4 years for 20mins a time. I have got into perl, but they are really small programs, a simple register/login, simple stock update, and a small program allowing downloads of a dynamicaly created external js.

I have a reasonably large site that so far is only 4Mb (5.5Mb on disk). I also have a free BTopenworld site of 10Mb with nothing on it, which I could start using for uncompressed sounds.

I think I'll stay where I am for now.

Is asp includes similar to js includes but readable by search engines?

I don't know about JS includes readable by Search Engines. Maybe they are but ASP includes are readable by search engines.

ASP includes remain server-side includes on server only. The server puts it all together & then send it to the browser, so at the browser end you can't tell what was included in the original page, much less you can guess what the original page was. Search Engines spider what one receive at the browser end. They don't & can't have a look at your ASP or any other server side code.